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Every highway and byway is destiny’s trail and where it leads and what lies ahead is destiny’s secret. Down a dark road speeds a car bearing in it two who are destiny’s children though they don’t know it. To themselves they are two people on their way to a masquerade ball. Steve Raymond and his fiancee Marsha ´ Phillips, heading for an evening of gaiety and laughter but they’re destined to spend a...

Doc has been talked in to being umpire at a baseball game but Matt is concerned that it is not the game it used to be and fears there will be trouble if the fans or even the teams themselves cause some kind of ruckus.  Written by: Vic perrin  Duration: 28:10  Starring: William Conrad, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Joseph Kearns, Ralph Moody, Vic Perrin, Harry Bartell, B...

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Here are episodes from each of the men whom played the role of Johnny Dollar. Which is your favorite Johnny? ................ Milford Brooks III – Dick Powell The Search for Michelle Marsh - Charles Russell The Eighty-Five Little Minks – Edmond O’Brien The Marigold Matter – John Lund The Empty Threat Matter – Bob Bailey The Short Term Matter – Bob Readick The Fiddle Faddle Matter – Mandel Kramer

It’s nine o’clock in the evening at the Blue Note Cafe,´ too early for the late crowd and the early crowd have gone home for dinner. The place is practically deserted when Casey and Miss Williams enter. Ethel Bert, proprietor of the Blue Note Cafe advised him that a dame ´ had been in looking for him.  Duration: 28:17  Starring: Staats Cotsworth  Broadcast Date: 6th November 1947

Dr Kildare is based on the Metro Goldwyn Mayer films. It is set in Blair General Hospital, one of the great citadels of American medicine and described as a clump of grey-white buildings planted deep in the heart of New York. It is the nerve centre of medical progress where great minds and skilled hands wage man’s everlasting battle against death and disease. Where life begins, where life ends, wh...

The strange tale of an old woman and of three heirs, Blanche, Vivien and Chris, all greedy for her millions. In a great mansion far from the city, Mrs. Olivia Drake lies dying. Olivia has two weeks to live. In that two weeks she has to decide which grandchild she will leave her fortune to.  Duration: 28:02  Starring: Philip Clarke  Broadcast Date: 1st April 1945

Includes a public notice on inflation and its affect on America. Out of the fog. . . out of the night. . . and into his American adventures. . . comes. . . Bulldog Drummond! Champion of lost causes, amateur detective, the most celebrated soldier of fortune of the screen and radio Bulldog Drummond comes to you with more of his baffling and intriguing mysteries. Frederick Trent is found murdered and...

I hope you enjoy this block of radio programing. Men Whom Made America - The Gray Spirit Red Skelton - Travel to Hawaii Fort Laramie - War Correspondents The Hardy Family - Fred Jr and the Visiting Dignitary Story Behind The Headlines  - The Big Four Meet Candy Matson - NC9-8012 My Little Margie - Does Margie Marry Freddie Thirty Minutes In Hollywood  -   Tribute To Vaudeville Marti...

Marshall Matt Dillon is on his way to Dodge House to meet Mr Davis at two o’clock when he sees young Cullen being thrown out of the store. Jonas said he threw him out for trying to buy ammunition for the Cheyenne Indians. The Indians stole him from his mother eight years ago in Madison River but Matt told Jonas young Cullen was a white boy and lived back with his mother now. There were others in D...

Part James Bond, part Wonder Woman, The Avengers epitomized Sixties British Cool on the small screen. The infrastructure for TV broadcasting was slow to be adopted in South Africa, but they had this terrific version of The Avengers from Springbok Radio. The Avengers burst in the door of spy and super-hero adventure drama on South African radio in 1971, starring Donald Monat as John Steed, and Dian...

Audition Program Audition program with Bob Corley (a white man)in the part of Beulah who had originally appeared on the Fibber McGee and Molly show as their black maid. Bob Corley played the part following the death of Marlin Hurt who had played Beulah on the Fibber Mcgee and Molly show. It is interesting that both actors were white men playing the part of a black woman. It’s early morning at the...

The makers of Maxwell House Coffee presents 60 starstudded minutes brought to you from Metro Goldwyn Meyer studios in Hollywood. Guest stars include Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Eleanor Powell, Alan Jones, Francis Wallis famed for football authority along with regulars, Fanny Brice “Baby Snooks” with Hanley Stafford and Frank Morgan. Music by Meredith Wilson and his orchestra.  Host: Robert Y...

The wireless is interrupted by a special bulletin. “Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen which is moving towards the earth at enormous velocity”. What is this unexplained phenomena? Most definitely the most famous radio drama e...

Ozzie has been reading about hypnotism and thinks that he night make a good hypnotist, However when he tries it on Harriett it doesn’t work so he decides to try it out on their housekeeper Gloria. Gloria has always had an ambition to be a great dramatic actress like Ethel Barrymore and Ozzie hypnotises her to believe that. Three hours later she still appears to be hypnotized despite Ozzie’s attemp...

Dolly Preston member of a Mob disappeared three years ago in a faked accident together with some $600,000 worth of gang money. Returning to her house to recover the money she has hidden there Dolly is met by the boss Fred Blake who kills her when she refuses to disclose where in the house the money is hidden.  Duration: 26:13  Starring: Dick Kollmar  Broadcast Date: 9th March 1949

Harry Pope’s wife had died four months ago and he had moved from Boston out to Dodge and built himself a little house out on the prairie. Now he told Chester that he was scared to death of the Indians in the area but Marshal Matt Dillon advised him that it was most likely not Indians that he could hear hollering and hooting.  Duration: 29:45  Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer  B...

Luigi would like to do something big for his country and asks Pasquale for his advice. Pasquale suggests he marry his daughter Rosa to which Luigi replies that he wanted to do something big for America but not that big. Miss Spaulding suggests that he go to the blood bank and give blood for the soldiers of America.  Duration: 30:19  Starring: J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed  Broadcast Da...

Edna’s father had told her that if you walked or danced on a grave the poltergeist would come an evil spirit that comes out of the grave to kill and destroy so that night as she and two friends were singing merrily on their way home and accidentally danced on a gravestone Edna became hysterical. As she fled in tears a rock came flying at her from the graveyard knocking her unconscious.  Durat...

The man stands in the dim lit room looking down at the motionless body on the floor his large muscular hands are in stark contrast to his thin sensitive face. For another moment he stands there staring vacantly then he walks to the telephone dials the number to the police and reports the murder. The man is Victor Corbet who had been dead for five years. As he sits and waits for the police he think...

Dan Holiday was a fiction writer who got his material for his books through his provocative ads in the Star Times which read “adventure wanted – will go anywhere –do anything-Box 13”. Today in Box 13 he received a note as follows:- I know my life is in danger, I think you can help me I’m desperate and dare not go to the police. Please if you want to help go to the Tivoli theatre box office for the...

You are the victim of a native witch doctor . . . pursued from the west coast of Africa to the West End of London by the grinning face of a dead man. You are under the curse of a Porrah man. A radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells gripping short story of the same name.  Duration: 29:47  Starring: Luis Van Rooten  Broadcast Date: 29th October 1947

The story of the activities of the famed British slasher, as seen through the eyes of a young lass. This is a more complete, different AFRTS version than cat. #16793. The middle public service announcement has been deleted. Good Evening, My Name Is Jack The Ripper is the final episode of this yearlong fantastic series. It is set in the year 1888 in London, England. The first murder had taken place...

It was in the year 1991 that man disappeared from the face of the earth. The third atomic war had ended leaving the land a mass of red radio active dust filling the air with gamma rays so deadly that life on the surface was no longer possible. There was only one way out. The few survivors went underground, burrowing their way deep into the earth like hunted moles, hiding from death in huge undergr...

Columbia gave the famous young Orson Welles the chance to bring his celebrated repertory company from Broadway to “The Broadway of The Air”. In this first of these excellent shows you are treated to the most famous horror story in the world, Bram Stokers Dracula. The recording is a little crackly, but even after over 60 years it is still well worth listening to.  Duration: 56.01  Starrin...